Ivan Moreno, Ben-JAMIN'

"The painter maintains in his work a natural distance from reality, the cameraman penetrates deeply into its web" (Benjamin 45, 2012).

As a filmmaker, with a bit of experience in other digital art, this quote speaks to me greatly because of the amount of attention to detail that one must place in order to present a successful film. As Benjamin states, the painter does not need to place everything in a particular and believable area in order to be considered a good painter. The cameraman, on the other hand, must be sure that everything within frame "fits" the intended "universe" that the film takes place in. Whereas art is sometimes praised for its mysterious objects and nonsensical designs, film is almost always negatively criticized if the "web" Benjamin mentions is not tightly knit.

With the introduction of film and the many advancements since the photograph, filmmakers have been constantly pushing towards a more "real" feel and look to their film. The more believable you can make a scene look, the more invested the person will be and in turn, the more successful the film. Whereas art tends to deviate from reality freely, film tends to maintain some close connections to the real world. If film strays too far from reality, the audience will potentially lose interest and be unable to follow. The problem here being that whereas a picture can be interpreted in thousands of ways, a film will have a more definite opinion because of the story the filmmaker wants to tell.